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THe great late-flowring bulbous Violet, is in all the parts thereof very like unto the first, but much bigger, it beareth upon a reasonable tall stalk, bigger in the middle than at either end, three or four flowers, like in form and colour unto the first: we have
had two other varieties which came from Portugall, but both of them so tender that they would not abide in our cold Countrey,
The first flowreth about the end of February, the second or lesser a fortnight before it, and the great late flowring kind, not untill May.
They all increase by the root like Daffodills, being very apt to off-set; they lose their fibres, and therefore may be taken up and kept dry untill Autumn, and then choice being made of the biggest roots to set, the rest may be cast away, for a few of these will be sufficient to furnish a garden, especially of the lesser and common kind.